Tai Shan (from the album Wildflower Moon

Tai Shan (from the album Wildflower Moon

Tai Shan (from the album Wildflower Moon available on Tai Shan Garrison Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Tai Shan will push boundaries. While soft ballads keep Shan in the Folk music realm, subtle pulsing beats, a thick croon, and various melodies allow the Nashville-based musician to drift into a realm you can categorize as ‘outside of Americana’. A catch-all, yes, but an apt descriptor for Tai Shan’s latest in Wildflower Moon.
A sturdy pulse introduces the album with “Road Back to Me”, a solid first track when she is joined by a pushing, yet kind, banjo on a hopeful opener. Ambient sound effects of birds fade out under a brushed snare drum push of “Wheels and Gasoline”, Tai Shan’s vocals and simple, sparse piano giving the cut an overall hush.  “Jump on In” has a Big Easy street Funk vibe, “How it Flew (The Kite Song)” is a dreamy lullaby, and that bedtime notion is ever present, heavy as a tuckered-out kid’s evening eyelids on “Lullaby Rendezvous”. This duet is also a cut that remains ripe for a closing scene in a smoky cocktail bar, a score as you order a drink with an olive while lighting your last cigarette.
The closer in “Sailing into the Sunset” is a cut that could play as the credits roll on a sad love-story, a drifting and dramatic closing from a song that’s cinematic from a record that’s equally dramatic.  (by Bryant Liggett)
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